Tag: 2016

By Surya Narayan Pradhan Bhubaneswar: The Year 2016 ended after ups and downs, twists and turns and happenings which made Odisha as one of the trending topics in national as well as global media. Be it Dana Majhi of Kalahandi carrying wife’s body on his shoulders from the Bhawanipatna hospital due to denial of a […]

Bhubaneswar: Odia movie ‘Chini has been adjudged as best feature film at the 28th Odisha State Film Awards announced by the Culture Department here on Monday. The film will get the prestigious Mohan Sundar Dev Goswami Samman in the best film category. Singer Pranab Pattnaik will get the prestigious Jayadeva Award for his life time […]

Bhubaneswar: The State Cabinet has approved the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, of the Central Government, informed Housing and Urban development minister Pushpendra Singh Deo in a Press Meet here today. Deo said that the Act will bring transparency in the sale and purchase of properties. He informed about formation of a Real […]

New Delhi: India skipper Virat Kohli was on Wednesday named the ‘Leading Cricketer in the World’ for 2016 by this year’s edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, which is published this week. The 28-year-old Indian amassed 1,215 Test runs at a healthy average of 75.93 while producing 739 runs at 92.37 in One-day Internationals (ODI) besides […]

Bhubaneswar: The SUM Hospital tragedy, poor healthcare, shoddy handling of the Mahanadi water-sharing dispute and the CBI inquiry into the multi-crore chit fund scam dogged the Naveen Patnaik-led Odisha government in the outgoing year. The “shame walk” of a tribal with his wife’s body, the death of 20 children due to malnutrition and the Japanese […]